The only way to do this "right", I think, would be to allow the "expert" to be introduced (who/what/where) and then allow them to answer questions (where relevant) with the best responses possible -- something as helpful as you might find from an excellent daily/. discussion contributor.
Well, in some form, this is already being done. In addition to "Ask Slashdot" there's these "Ask John Carmack (and we will pick the best questions and post his answers in a week or two)" specials too.
However, the moment that the person starts plugging their company or product where it's not completely appropriate, expect shit to blow up, and people will be pissed. And then they won't come back. Be careful, Slashdot!
Agreed, there is certainly dangers here. Some careful thought must be put behind how this all will be implemented.
Short Stroking a HDD refers to telling the firmware that a disk has less sectors than it really has. An easy example is setting a 1.5TB drive as a 500gb. That means that you only use the INNER 1/3 of the disk (the fastest part). Additionally you reduce head movement.
But but but...how is the situation when the HDD has multiple platters? Assuming that this 1.5TB disk has 3 x 500GB platters, wouldn't short-stroke like that mean that the whole disk area is used, but only one platter? Or is the data interleaved across platters?
Everyone uses computers these days and may find interesting things. After all, the crack was something for which you wouldn't need special hacker skills. But yeah, it's interesting.
(hey, Brian, I'm not wearing panties today. Surprise for when you get home after work!;) )
This is the classic problem of how to properly close a parenthetical statement that ends with an emoticon.
Another semantic nugget I wanted to add, is when you use slash to separate two things ("cat/dog"). If an item consists of multiple words, you should cover it in curly brackets so that you know what words the option covers ("cat/{big dog}").
So technically the sentences "Today I'm going to fix the garage/kitchen door" and "Today I'm going to fix the garage/{kitchen door}" are two different things. In the first one you're either fixing the door of garage or kitchen. In the second one you're either fixing the whole garage or the kitchen door.
I have certainly found that using a 11.6" 1366x768 laptop as my main machine has started to become rather annoying - too small pixel size. A 15.6" with the same resolution would be good.
Adblock Plus (isn't everyone?): I was under the impression (read on slashdot, so YMMGV) that Adblocking on opera was sub-par (still requested the ad, and just hid it, etc... rather than blocking it completely)?
I would love to see more laptops with IPS displays though. It might be possible as we've lately got relatively affordable tablets and desktop displays utilizing them too.
A minute spent filing, backing up, etc. of unnecessary data is a minute wasted. Add enough of those seconds together, and it may amount to a good chunk of your life spent doing more interesting/productive things.
It creeps me how young geeks invest their time in managing their home NAS or even a personal mail server (+domain) while it would be much more simple to just use an USB hard disk and webmail and then use that time for something more creative.
Slashdot could have some button to undo all moderations to the discussion (after which you couldn't moderate the discussion anymore). So the behavior would be the same but you wouldn't have to post the dummy comment.
That was my thought too, but according to this chart the E-350 is pretty much on par with D525. The AMD designs feature a nice Radeon chip though. By the way there's an E-350 based Eee Box already available...I would actually like to own one.
In one blind test the audiophile audience couldn't point the difference between a "hifi scam" cable and a lamp wire which was connected to the amplifier with only one thread of copper.
I think one of this AC's points was that brand stuff is made in China too, while the country's name is many times attached when talking about cheap garbage. Cheap CHINESE this, cheap CHINESE that.
I think the idea is cool. However, as you now get the best of both worlds (capacity, speed) you also have two areas of failure (mechanical damage, flash corruption). I also hope the firmware does not create problems. It's not completely unusable product either.
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Better luck to you.
Another thing, it would be nice if the Slashdot message system also sent a message on event when an user's story is published.
The only way to do this "right", I think, would be to allow the "expert" to be introduced (who/what/where) and then allow them to answer questions (where relevant) with the best responses possible -- something as helpful as you might find from an excellent daily /. discussion contributor.
Well, in some form, this is already being done. In addition to "Ask Slashdot" there's these "Ask John Carmack (and we will pick the best questions and post his answers in a week or two)" specials too.
However, the moment that the person starts plugging their company or product where it's not completely appropriate, expect shit to blow up, and people will be pissed. And then they won't come back. Be careful, Slashdot!
Agreed, there is certainly dangers here. Some careful thought must be put behind how this all will be implemented.
As a mini observation, I have noticed that every some months the setting flips back and you have to check the box again.
Short Stroking a HDD refers to telling the firmware that a disk has less sectors than it really has. An easy example is setting a 1.5TB drive as a 500gb. That means that you only use the INNER 1/3 of the disk (the fastest part). Additionally you reduce head movement.
But but but...how is the situation when the HDD has multiple platters? Assuming that this 1.5TB disk has 3 x 500GB platters, wouldn't short-stroke like that mean that the whole disk area is used, but only one platter? Or is the data interleaved across platters?
Exactly. There seems to be some major design flaws in Facebook.
Everyone uses computers these days and may find interesting things. After all, the crack was something for which you wouldn't need special hacker skills. But yeah, it's interesting.
(hey, Brian, I'm not wearing panties today. Surprise for when you get home after work! ;) )
This is the classic problem of how to properly close a parenthetical statement that ends with an emoticon.
Another semantic nugget I wanted to add, is when you use slash to separate two things ("cat/dog"). If an item consists of multiple words, you should cover it in curly brackets so that you know what words the option covers ("cat/{big dog}").
So technically the sentences "Today I'm going to fix the garage/kitchen door" and "Today I'm going to fix the garage/{kitchen door}" are two different things. In the first one you're either fixing the door of garage or kitchen. In the second one you're either fixing the whole garage or the kitchen door.
Size only matters if your eyesight is poor.
I have certainly found that using a 11.6" 1366x768 laptop as my main machine has started to become rather annoying - too small pixel size. A 15.6" with the same resolution would be good.
Adblock Plus (isn't everyone?): I was under the impression (read on slashdot, so YMMGV) that Adblocking on opera was sub-par (still requested the ad, and just hid it, etc... rather than blocking it completely)?
That comment was for Chrome.
I think the new YouTube layout is great, by the way.
Sunlight-readable display is indeed a kick-ass feature to have.
For photo editing, a laptop is fine.
I would love to see more laptops with IPS displays though. It might be possible as we've lately got relatively affordable tablets and desktop displays utilizing them too.
A minute spent filing, backing up, etc. of unnecessary data is a minute wasted. Add enough of those seconds together, and it may amount to a good chunk of your life spent doing more interesting/productive things.
It creeps me how young geeks invest their time in managing their home NAS or even a personal mail server (+domain) while it would be much more simple to just use an USB hard disk and webmail and then use that time for something more creative.
Slashdot could have some button to undo all moderations to the discussion (after which you couldn't moderate the discussion anymore). So the behavior would be the same but you wouldn't have to post the dummy comment.
That was my thought too, but according to this chart the E-350 is pretty much on par with D525. The AMD designs feature a nice Radeon chip though. By the way there's an E-350 based Eee Box already available...I would actually like to own one.
A Dell LCD that draws 0.7A at 230V would be consuming 161W - That's more than a 19" CRT.
161W could actually power quite a big CRT. I have measured about 70W for both a 17" computer monitor and a 28" widescreen TV.
In one blind test the audiophile audience couldn't point the difference between a "hifi scam" cable and a lamp wire which was connected to the amplifier with only one thread of copper.
Well played, sir.
On the same note, even the "The AC was making a joke, numbnuts." message could in theory have been humor too. :)
All netbook Atoms do support it now. The early N270 and N280 were the ones that didn't. Then the miniaturized Atom lines (Z, E) apparently lack it.
Reading the title, I for a microsecond thought this was some kind of culture preservation project, digitizing all the music on analog media...
But also advantages of both.
Just to make sure...it's not the head unload sound? And you have disabled idle hard drive power off in OS power settings?
I think one of this AC's points was that brand stuff is made in China too, while the country's name is many times attached when talking about cheap garbage. Cheap CHINESE this, cheap CHINESE that.
I think the idea is cool. However, as you now get the best of both worlds (capacity, speed) you also have two areas of failure (mechanical damage, flash corruption). I also hope the firmware does not create problems. It's not completely unusable product either.